Quotes by Paul Strand

Paul Strand

All good art is abstract in its structure.

Abstract

Art

Structure

All light is available light.

Available

Light

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

Law

Photography

Two

Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a ‘decisive moment’, that’s true except that it shouldn’t be taken too narrowly…does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That’s a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.

Photography

Rain

Taken

Did I express my personality? I think that’s quite unimportant because it’s not people’s selves but what they have to say about life that’s important.

Photography

Self

Thinking

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.

Photography

Real

Wall

I don’t care how you photograph – use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography… you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

Kitchen

Law

Photography

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

Done

Faces

People

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!

Eight

Thinking

Years

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

Discovery

Long

Thinking

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Abstract

Art

Artist

Available

Cameras

Care

Decision

Discovery

Dollars

Done

Drawing

Effectiveness

Eight

Endure

Essence

Expression

Faces

Feet

Goal

Gratitude

Heart

Honesty

Humanness Is

Ifs

Important

Kitchen

Law

Lenses

Life

Light

Long

Lying

Matter

Mean

Men

Moving

Objectivity

Oil

Order

People

Photographer

Photography

Portraits

Profound

Rain

Real

Records

Research

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Quotes by Paul Strand

Paul Strand

All good art is abstract in its structure.

All light is available light.

Did I express my personality? I think that’s quite unimportant because it’s not people’s selves but what they have to say about life that’s important.

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.

I don’t care how you photograph – use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography… you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

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